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Seems a little absurd to require a volunteer Brakeman on a tourist railroad to drop thousands on a watch ... its not like you have to make sure your train is in the hole before the hotshot express roars through ... lol
I would ask some of the other volunteers what they have for a watch or ask...
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Interesting. Great shots by the way!
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Maybe I've been living under a rock, but since when does the Rocky Mountaineer go through Seattle?
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Thanks for posting the video! Very cool to see 2141 back when she was in regular service!
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Canada and the US are each other's #1 trading partners. You know all that foreign oil politicians love to blather on about? Canada's is the US's #1 supplier of oil ;) I would suspect that the US is also Mexico's #1 trading partner as well. Think of what would happen if train cargo couldn't...
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Don't forget the massive physical infrastructure.
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Because not every railroad goes to every destination. A carload of widgets might move over 2-3 different railroads before it gets to where it needs to go.
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It's technically not a caboose, it's a "shoving platform." On trains that expect to have long backing moves, they'll use a shoving platform to give the conductor or brakeman a safe place to stand while on point.
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Are you asking about whether it will run without a diesel in the consist? I doubt it. Mainline steam without a diesel is pretty much a thing of the past. Once in a blue moon, Canadian Pacific used to let 2816 run without a diesel in tow but even that didn't happen the last few years...
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"Running trades" are the operations crews ... conductors, enginemen, brakemen, etc, as opposed to "shop trades" who are the welders, diesel mechanics, etc ;)
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While I stand to be corrected, I believe running trades on VIA trains are provided by the host railway (CP or CN).
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No worries. I would but it'll be a couple of years before they let me fly. :(
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LOL. Nope, not a pilot. BCAS Paramedic. ;)
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